I used to share links to articles but have not in a while. Here are articles related to biblical and theological illiteracy.

♦ America’s real crisis is biblical illiteracy 
This is an opinion piece from World magazine. Excerpts, emphasis added:

Biblical illiteracy… “We see it in Christian audiences so underformed that charisma, sentiment, and ideology are often mistaken for sound doctrine. The issue is no longer simply that Scripture is denied. It is that Scripture is often no longer known with sufficient depth to be interpreted responsibly, rejected intelligently, or applied coherently. This is new territory. In decades past, most Americans at least knew what they were rejecting. A society that has lost the categories necessary to understand truth has entered a truly precarious condition.” — “Where biblical literacy declines, confusion does not remain theoretical. It becomes formative.”

♦  What do evangelicals and progressive Christians have in common?
This is an article by David Watson, current President of Asbury Theological Seminary. He responds to Ligonier Ministries’ 2025 “State of Theology” survey. Excerpts, emphasis added:

“Here’s the bottom line: a majority of evangelicals simply don’t know the basic content of Christian faith. And what’s worse, they don’t know that they don’t know it. And because they don’t know that they don’t know it, they don’t know they need to change. That’s a problem.”

“I’m far less concerned about progressive Christianity, however, than I am about the distorted understandings of many evangelicals. The progressives are rejecting the church’s historic teachings on purpose. You can call Talarico a heretic all day long, but it won’t matter because he doesn’t recognize the church’s historic teachings as normative. Evangelicals, on the other hand, seem not to know they’re committing heresy when they’re doing it. At least, that’s what I’m gathering from the State of the Church survey.”

“Belief matters. The claims we make about who God is and what he has done for us in Jesus Christ shape the way we understand everything else. As Tozer put it, ‘What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.'”

♦  Here is a biblical literacy quiz from Biola Magazine. (It is about biblical facts, rather than theology.)  Test your biblical literacy with this 20-question quiz. No Googling, Bible-opening or other cheating allowed!

♦  Finally, maybe you feel biblically illiterate? Here is an Enough Light post, originally from 2104, that I updated in 2025. It begins:
Sometimes I come in contact with a Christian who feels dumb. They want to be a more informed believer but don’t know where to begin. They’d like to have a broader understanding of the Bible and theology but feel overwhelmed or intimidated. You’ve got to begin somewhere, and small steps can get you moving in the right direction! My knowledge has grown very slowly over time. Don’t compare yourself to someone else, but begin “where you are.”  At one time the more advanced person was just beginning too! Here are things that helped me over the years.
– Read the rest here: You don’t have to feel dumb…Take small steps in the right direction, growing in your knowledge of God.

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